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surface acuducted, the tip crenated. Under surface of body and 

 thorax brown tinged with brassy reflections. Femora dilated, 

 compressed, brown tinged with violet ; tibiae and tarsi slender, 

 pale yellowish brown, the tibiae of first two pair of legs some- 

 what bent. 



Length 10^ lines. 

 Hab. S, America (Ega). From Mr. Bates's Collection. 



11. Pyrodes heterocerus. 



Pyrodes heterocerus, Erichs. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, p- 139. 

 Hub. Peru. 



12. Pyrodes antennatus, n. s. PI. II. f. 6. B.M. 



P. aeneo-viridis, antennarum articulo primo et tertio dilatatis pur- 

 pureis articulis 8 sequentibus fulvis, femoribus purpureis di- 

 latatis, tibiis tarsisque fulvis. 



Head closely punctiu-ed, deeply grooved down the middle. 

 Thorax smooth, depressed here and there in the middle, covered 

 with large shallow punctures. Scutellum cordate, closely punc- 

 tured, except at the tip, which is smooth. Elytra slightly ribbed, 

 very thickly punctured, in common with the head ; thorax and 

 scutellum of a bronzy brownish green. Under surface of a deep 

 brassy green, very smooth, the hinder edge of the segments of 

 the abdomen slightly hollowed out and brown. Antennae with 

 the first joint bent, dilated and thickened at the end ; third joint 

 elongated, flattened and dilated, and with the two preceding it 

 of a violet-purple ; the eight other joints slender and fulvous ; 

 the femora dilated and violet-purple ; tibiae and tarsi fulvous, the 

 former somewhat violet at the base. 



Length from 10^ to 151 lines. 

 Hab. S. America (Ega). From the Collection of Mr. Bates. 



86. MALLASPIS. 



Mallaspis, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 188. 

 Prionus, p., Fabr. 



1. Mallaspis scutellaris. 



Prionus scutellaris, Oliv. Col. iv. 14. pi. 2. f. 9. 

 Mallaspis scutellaris, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 189. 

 Hab. Cayenne. 



2. Mallaspis leucaspis. B.M. 



Mallaspis leucaspis, Dej. Cat. p. 344. 



Chierin, Icon. R. A. texte, p. 214. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



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